Bug 151902

Summary:	Improve document theme color edit UI
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Miklos Vajna <vmiklos>
Component:	Impress	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	heiko.tietze, quikee, vsfoote
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151507
Whiteboard:	target:24.2.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	104118, 107331

Description Miklos Vajna 2022-11-04 14:44:01 UTC

See bug 151900 for context, that bug has to be solved first.

Once that's done, the UI should be improved (the Theme tab page):

Looking at the competition (PowerPoint), what they have is you go to slide master view, and then the Slide Master tab on the ribbon has a colors dropdown. Each item in that dropdown provides a set of colors. Only an additional button below the dropdown opens an inner dialog to edit individual colors.

The idea (from Heiko, but I agree) is that most users don't want to specify individual colors, rather they just want to pick one set of colors from a list.

The above referred bugreport has additional columns with RGB values, those should be used for the implementation.

The task is to add such a theme color dropdown to the Theme tab page, and move most of the widgets of the original tab page into an inner dialog, available from a new button below the dropdown. (Or something equivalent, Heiko may have better ideas for the exact layout.)

As a follow-up, this may obsolete palettes of colors (which are just RGB values without names), but good to work incrementally.

Comment 1 Miklos Vajna 2022-11-04 14:44:42 UTC

Adding people to CC. I'm filing this as a bug as I don't have time to do this myself right now and it's possible Tomaz would have a student to work on this.

Comment 2 Heiko Tietze 2022-11-08 09:37:05 UTC

(In reply to Miklos Vajna from comment #0)
> The idea (from Heiko, but I agree) is that most users don't want to specify
> individual colors, rather they just want to pick one set of colors from a
> list.

See bug 151507

Comment 3 Miklos Vajna 2023-01-17 09:36:05 UTC

Tomaz fixed this / implemented the feature for Writer. Calc and Impress still needs doing.

Comment 4 Commit Notification 2023-07-26 17:46:11 UTC

Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/16b80e2fd18b61f638e9387bb134fbe9e582f421

tdf#151902 Doc themes - place Help button on the left

It will be available in 24.2.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.